Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last fall English Actor Robert Morley, unknown in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame in the title role of Oscar Wilde, cinema fame as Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. Last month English Actor Lawrence Olivier, no great name in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame playing opposite Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, cinema fame as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Unlike Morley, Olivier became a terrific matinee idol to boot...
...English mill at capacity will be able to turn out 600,000 tons of strip a year. But this is not enough to meet the armament demand. Last week England bought 100,000 tons of U. S. sheet steel for air-raid shelters...
...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has really added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...
Compounded of puns, disjointed syllables, half-words, it is closest to English, but Erse, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French, Sanskrit, even Esperanto appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion. The ablest punster in seven languages, Joyce sometimes combines puns and snatches of songs. Example: "ginabawdy meadabawdy!" (from a passage dealing with Earwicker's dream of a night out). Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers...
Resettled at Zurich, Joyce taught at the Berlitz school, as he had at Trieste. Mrs. Joyce remembers poverty and small apartments, "long on mice, short on kitchen utensils." But Joyce was happy, worked hard on Ulysses, enjoyed drinking white wine with English Painter Frank Budgen at the Cafe Pfauen. Lenin used to frequent the same cafe, but the literary and the proletarian revolutionists never...